Power outage impacting much of Downtown Kamloops

KAMLOOPS — UPDATE (1:53 p.m.): BC Hydro said the outage was reduced to impacting 213 customers in downtown Kamloops as of Monday afternoon.

The power company said the outage is contained south of Sarcee Street, north-east of Victoria Street, and west of Lorne Street.

There is a crew on-site working to restore power, but the cause of the outage is still under investigation.

ORIGINAL STORY (12:45 p.m.): BC Hydro is reporting that 626 of its customers are without power in the downtown Kamloops area Monday (Oct. 26) afternoon.